fox 5's audrey burns there. >> the teenager who was attacked is recovering at home. doctors wired his jaw shut to heal. he was mugged a couple hundred yards from rhode island row, a new multimillion dollar development and people living there are on edge. for the second time in three months there's been a serious attack near rhode island row, a sprawling new development of condos and 70,000 square feet of retail space in northeast. this time it was 17-year-old joseph agola beaten and robbed on the stairwell near the metro station. police are looking for seven teenagers in connection with the attack that was so brutal his jaw will be wired shut the next six weeks. his mother who is blind is worried about caring for him. >> why? why should that happen to my son? what did he do to anybody? >> reporter: in october a 24- year-old woman living in the rhode island row condo complex was stabbed two dozen times during an attempted rape. police arrested a d.c. man in connection with that attack. lisa locksman who lives on the row says in some urban areas crime comes with the te